Apparently woolly mammoths were carnivores!

[astro]

Who knew?

And then to follow it up with this observation

It probably won’t be a paragon of scientific accuracy, judging by Emmerich’s previous track record on “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Godzilla.” But Hollywood has a history of mining prehistory for entertainment value over archaeological exactness — or, as legendary animator Ray Harryhausen once put it, “professors probably don’t go to the cinema anyway.”

or write articles for MSNBC apparently.

[astro]

In case they wise up and change it here is the pic with the tagline

"A woolly mammoth looks for a meal in Roland Emmerich’s “10,000 B.C.”

[thelurkinghorror]

Mammoths were sissy herbivores, and they could only eat hypoallergenic hay.

Mastodons were the true badasses, and ate cavechildren by the trunkfull.

[bbs2k]

It’s not really a stretch.

Enraged elephant turns maneater

[Balance]

@astro

Who knew?

Pete Abrams, obviously.

[Subway_Prophet]

@MSNBC

‘10,000 B.C.’ is the latest movie to take us back to when dinosaurs roamed

I really want to see this movie. I really like what Rolland and Emmerich have made so far. I can suspend my disbelief more easily for them than I can for, say, Michael Bay.

But if this movie has actual dinosaurs in it, I’m going to be pretty disappointed. Terror birds, okay, it’s a stretch but not too much of one. But dinosaurs? Arg.

[Wile_E]

Looking for a meal? He couldn’t be a little pissed about the crude spear sticking out of him?
And judging by the previews Sabre-Toothed Tigers just liked to sniff people’s hair. That must be where my kitty gets it from.
It figures someone would get to post the Sluggy reference before I could.

[Captain_Amazing]

@Subway Prophet

Terror birds, okay, it’s a stretch but not too much of one.

Weren’t terror birds extinct millions of years before people showed up?

“Hey, wait a minute. That’s really just an irate ostrich.”

[bbs2k]

@Captain Amazing

irate ostrich."

band name?

[elfkin477]

@Captain Amazing

Weren’t terror birds extinct millions of years before people showed up?

According to the wiki article someone linked in another thread, they might have been around as recently as 1.8 million years ago, not 2 million like previously thought. So unless the Flintstones is a documentary like my dad told me it was when I was five, the answer to your question seems to be yes.

[Subway_Prophet]

@elfkin477

According to the wiki article someone linked in another thread, they might have been around as recently as 1.8 million years ago, not 2 million like previously thought. So unless the Flintstones is a documentary like my dad told me it was when I was five, the answer to your question seems to be yes.

Right, but for a fantasy film that purports to be more firmly grounded in reality than, say, Dragonheart, I’m more willing to accept monsters that have been gone a mere 1.8 million years over monsters that have been gone for more than sixty million.

[Mangetout]

@Wile E

Looking for a meal? He couldn’t be a little pissed about the crude spear sticking out of him?

Nah, that’s a breadstick - he’s angry because he’s beckoned the waiter several times and has been ignored.

[JRDelirious]

@Subway Prophet

Right, but for a fantasy film that purports to be more firmly grounded in reality than, say, Dragonheart, I’m more willing to accept monsters that have been gone a mere 1.8 million years over monsters that have been gone for more than sixty million.

Rest assured: it’s terrorbirds and not dinos; any dinos are artifacts of the reviewer’s clue deficit. As in, reviewer believes “dinosaur” means “large extinct animal of any kind”.

[Rysto]

@Balance

Pete Abrams, obviously.

:smack: :smack: :smack:

Good God, I can’t believe that wasn’t my first thought when I read that article.